A staple of postgame postmortems, specifically in the games where leads got away within sports whose rigidly timed action flows back and forth, is that the team that lost played not to lose rather than to win. Their defense wasn’t aggressive enough. Their offense wasn’t opportunistic enough. Winning wasn’t the priority. Not losing was, […]
 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cliches, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Not Losing, Reed Garrett, Rockies, Starling Marte Big league ballplayers aren’t usually told to keep their day jobs, because they tend to work nights. Wednesday, the Mets were told to forget about their night jobs — fellas, you’re working the day shift. The change in their schedule, necessitated by a rainy forecast, didn’t appear to sit well with them. The White Sox, adhering […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Waddell, Mike Vasil, Pitchers on the Periphery, The Flintstones Amid the sensory assault the Citi Field A/V squad aims at its patrons in the course of a ballgame, lest we not be properly stimulated to MAKE SOME NOISE and fill every potential silence, is a clip that used to be shown at Shea. I don’t need the sensory assault. I certainly don’t need it […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Beverages, Citi Field, Confusion, Evocation, Jared Young, Network, Noise, Rick Derringer, Security Goons Scoring the two runs necessary to defeat the Chicago White Sox on Memorial Day was less a matter of pulling teeth than implanting them for the New York Mets. Virtually no baserunners for innings on end. Then baserunners. but none of them driven in. Ultimately, a sacrifice fly in the eighth and a sacrifice fly […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Bubble Gum, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Old Friends, One-Third of a Season, Pinch-Running, Sacrifice Flies, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs OK, so it didn’t exactly look good early. Kodai Senga‘s second pitch of the night was redirected by Shohei Ohtani to Carbonation Ridge for a 1-0 Dodger lead. Senga’s fourth pitch of the night skipped under Mark Vientos‘ glove, allowing Mookie Betts possession of first base. Senga’s 13th pitch? Freddie Freeman smacked it to right-center for a double, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Landon Knack, Luis Torrens, Max Kranick, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ryne Stanek, Shohei Ohtani, Tyrone Taylor, Will Smith All hail David Peterson, who lasted seven-and-two-thirds innings in the game that directly followed the Mets playing thirteen. On its face, that scans as a highly commendable effort, especially since the Mets won Peterson’s Saturday night start over the Dodgers, 5-2, but consider the context and ramp up your commendations. The face of contemporary baseball […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antidote for a Weary Bullpen, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Fravesties, Jared Young, Joe “Iron Man” McGinnity, Juan Soto, Postseason Grudges Friday night’s game … goodness, where do you even start? Let’s start with the weather. It wasn’t supposed to rain in New York, or at least not seriously enough to matter, but it’s done nothing but rain in New York all May, so if it isn’t doing that you check and see if it just did […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Gho, Griffin Canning, Jeff McNeil, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto, Rain Delays, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Tanner Scott, Teoscar Hernandez, Tyrone Taylor “Thank you for sharing, Baltimore O, and thank you for offering Baltimore O your empathy, Pittsburgh P. Having to replace a manager so early in the season is always difficult. Remember, at Losing Baseball Teams Anonymous, we’re here to help one another without rendering judgment. Do you have anything you wish to add, Chicago WS?” “Hi, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Kvetching, Perspective, Stopping Losing, Tylor Megill Savor this. That’s always the warning when your baseball team is playing taut, crackling ball at a pinch me level. It seems inconceivable, but the good times will end. The hits will stop falling in, balls will start just eluding gloves, relievers will enter jams and emerge scathed. Baseball’s karmic wheel will turn and somehow joy […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Disappointment, Fenway Park, Losing Streaks, Red Sox, Walker Buehler The Mets haven’t lost more than two consecutive games all year. But they sure do pack a lot of defeat into their brief losing streaks. Sunday…yeech. Monday… more of that. The back-to-back scores — 8-2 and 3-1 — were dissimilar, but the trajectory duplicated itself. Mets fall behind. Mets stay in it. Mets loiter in […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dangerous Assumptions, Fenway Park, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Pete Alonso, Two-Game Losing Streaks |
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